Bookplates

The collection includes examples of bookplates designed by Dmitrij R. Saenko, dating from 1994-2003.

This collection includes bookplates and other graphic works by Mark Severin (1906-1987), a Belgian artist and graphic designer.

The collection contains signed artist’s proofs for bookplates designed by F. B. Siegrist.

This is a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century bookplates, mostly European and armorial in style.

Bain no. 233. Inscribed in graphite: "AP Richard Shirley Smith. 1974."

Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

Bain no. 261. Inscribed in graphite: "AP Richard Shirley Smith '84."

The papers contain correspondence and personal papers, including photographs, writings of Amy Margaret Smith, and art work of George Plank.

This collection contains over 200 ex-libris designs by J. Winfred Spenceley (1865-1908), an artist and engraver active during the so-called “golden age” of American bookplate design.

Bain no. 284. No inscription.

Bain no. 215. Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

The collection contains 121 unused bookplate specimens designed by Vytautas O. Virkau, including ex-libris for both individual and institutional patrons.

This collection comprises a small number of bookplates by Rex Whistler as well as a few related materials, including correspondence and ephemera.

Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith 2001."

The collection consists of photographic negatives of new acquisitions, specifically acquisitions for the Rare Book Room (now the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Also included are photographs of exhibits, library staff at work, various library operations and departments, and bookplates, as well as a commemorative edition of the Yale Daily News featuring the opening of Sterling Memorial Library..

This collection contains bookplates by the Dutch artist Wim Zwiers. Many are signed proofs or numbered prints.

Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."